Just wanted to say thank you once again for this wonderful software emulation package. I put it here because it does involve some troubleshooting and your software was the one that came to save the day once again.

Retropie crashed on me. AGAIN.

This time, the Kodi 17.1 beta that came out for them and they had the instructions on how to update it to that version along with the joystick updates so that it would work. So I did it thinking it would fix my issues with Kodi....this box has been exclusively programmed to work with the Retropie package....lo and behold, not only did it crash on me, it then prevented Emulation Station from reading ANY of the controllers or keyboards connected to the USB ports so I couldn't program it. Also, since the Pi 3 couldn't complete the boot process, it couldn't obtain an IP address, so no net access through Putty or WinSCP either. Flashed a USB drive to create a temporary Ubuntu environment to try to copy the ROMs and fiolder structure off of there to try to rebuild the card, couldn't do that either.

180+ GB worth of games on a 200 GB Sandisk Class 10 UHS-1 Micro SD card. Down the $#!++er.

This marked the 10th time Retropie has crashed on me over some bull$#!+. I was mad.

So I torched it and reformatted the micro SD card. With my games on USB drives, and me on the road, of course, I had remembered Recalbox, and then waited to update the Pi with it. I love you guys. Seriously. Thank you for making it so easy and painless to get up and running with both video gaming and Kodi.

I'm not a computer amateur by any means, but Retropie is such a God-dmned pain in the @$$ to f**ing use and set up. Recalbox makes life so much easier. Thank you all for such a wonderful piece of software.

I was just curious as to if you were actually going to do the integration of the recalbox build masters for the other platforms into your main OS distribution channel, or are you going to focus on the development of the software until you have it rock-solid and d**n near bulletproof like you normally do? LOL that is the one thing I have to give Recalbox credit for: their retro gaming software on the Raspberry Pi 3 is freakin' idiot-proof, easy to set up and so much less trouble than Retropie.

I can understand if the Build Masters are experimental (read: unstable) builds and you don't want to announce them out yet, and I've done some testing on those (not to mention other ones, and yes, I use Retropie and Lakka too), But Recalbox, Batocera and Lakka easily remain my faves to use. You don't have to answer here if you don't want to, just merely curious.

Just was wondering how the development was coming along and if this feature was still being planned. I have a modded Chromebox with a 256 GB SSD that I can slap this onto. Thank you for your time and response.

Just updated from 4.0 to 4.0.2 and lost my audio in Emulation Station and all of my Retroarch emulators in-game. Checked ES menu, set to 100% and tried through both Auto and HDMI, still not working. Checked the recalbox.conf file, it's correct @ 100. Checked my R-Pi 3 /boot/config.txt file, hoping I forgot the hdmi_drive=1 comment out, and yes, it's uncommented out (to force HDMI audio out). Fired up Kodi 15.2 which is still running on Recalbox and it has audio and still works. Just game side. Argh! Oh well. Let me know if anyone has a solution. Thanks.

Saw the blog updates about the RPi3 version getting an update, which I'll do in a bit, but where's the XU4 and C2 iterations? Any news? Thanks.

Hey there. I saw the announcement, and was wondering if you were still going to go down the path of support for the other single-board computers such as the Odroids and x86 development like you have on your Wiki or are you going to stick to the Raspberry Pi development? I love your software and you guys and the Lakka crew have helped saved my retro gaming sanity with single-board computers many times over. Thanks in advance.

@Substring Oh I can think of a few ways Retropie does suck. I know you're probably a lot more respectful and give due respect (and yes, I know they were the first and largest community on the Pi), but LORD. Come on man.

1. Only officially support the Pi. Other platforms are not officially supported, and if you have a problem with those, the mods are ahem less than receptive in helping you. Putting it mildly. You have a problem on x86, C1, etc. too bad.

2. Ease of use has its perks. I think the last thing anyone wants to do is mess around with a Linux command line. Most people just want to sit down and play retro games. Recalbox (and even Lakka) give them the chance to do just that. Retropie, after some setup woes, and if the $#!+ doesn't crash on you, might let you that.

3. USB bootable. Featured in both Lakka and Recalbox for x86. Not so for the Retropie (unless Raspian for x86 can support Retropie in its USB live mode). What person who doesn't have computer knowledge and general knowledge of boot modes and Linux is going to know that?!?!

4. Best optimizations for the Pi 3 I have ever seen. You made the right choices in all aspects to build an emulation/Kodi package that just works on the Pi 3. We won't talk about the PPA packages that you have to download to get Kodi 17.1 working on the Pi 3 using Retropie without praying it doesn't crash your collection on the SD card.

Yeah, you could emulate more platforms on the Pi like Retropie does, but the platforms they do emulate outside of the typical Retroarch sets run like $#!+. Dreamcast emulation is spotty at best, even with a heavy overclock. PSP emulation is ghastly. N64 emulation is well-noted to be a pain in the @$$ on Retropie because of all of the configuration problems that would swamp a newbie with frustration.

Normally, I would attribute it to user error (my own fups) and call it a day. If that truly were the case (and I'm not going to lie, it was in some of the earlier times it crashed and I had no clue what the f I was doing), I'd chalk it up to a bad experience and not say a word about the software. But as I gained more knowledge about Retropie, Recalbox, Lakka and Linux in general, the more holes and problems I found in Retropie and how many ways it can crash on you (and did, in my case, often in new and unexpected and surprising ways).

Still wanted to thank you all and Retropie still sucks. LOL

Just wanted to say thank you once again for this wonderful software emulation package. I put it here because it does involve some troubleshooting and your software was the one that came to save the day once again.

Retropie crashed on me. AGAIN.

This time, the Kodi 17.1 beta that came out for them and they had the instructions on how to update it to that version along with the joystick updates so that it would work. So I did it thinking it would fix my issues with Kodi....this box has been exclusively programmed to work with the Retropie package....lo and behold, not only did it crash on me, it then prevented Emulation Station from reading ANY of the controllers or keyboards connected to the USB ports so I couldn't program it. Also, since the Pi 3 couldn't complete the boot process, it couldn't obtain an IP address, so no net access through Putty or WinSCP either. Flashed a USB drive to create a temporary Ubuntu environment to try to copy the ROMs and fiolder structure off of there to try to rebuild the card, couldn't do that either.

180+ GB worth of games on a 200 GB Sandisk Class 10 UHS-1 Micro SD card. Down the $#!++er.

This marked the 10th time Retropie has crashed on me over some bull$#!+. I was mad.

So I torched it and reformatted the micro SD card. With my games on USB drives, and me on the road, of course, I had remembered Recalbox, and then waited to update the Pi with it. I love you guys. Seriously. Thank you for making it so easy and painless to get up and running with both video gaming and Kodi.

I'm not a computer amateur by any means, but Retropie is such a God-dmned pain in the @$$ to f**ing use and set up. Recalbox makes life so much easier. Thank you all for such a wonderful piece of software.

Hardware: modded asus chromebox cn-60. Dual core celeron 2955u with 4 GB DDR3L RAM and 32 GB SanDisk usb stick as boot usb. 256 gb usb 3.0 SanDisk thumb drive for the roms and isos. Recalbox and emulation station see the games in the list just fine, even see the scraped Metadata but when i go to launch a game, screen goes black and bounces me back out to es. Figured it was the wrong resolution setting for the nes/snes/genesis emulators. None of the other ones work either. Only sole one working is the n64 one. Any idea what i should change in the configuration file to get the others back up and running? I have a hunch it's the resolution settings there. Just need to know the right ones to edit. Thanks in advance.

Sorry about that. My bad.

Including Joypad Support now. Any chance of it working or having been tested and integrated with buildroot on the Odroid XU4 yet? I know it uses a much older Linux kernel than other boards so it might take a while. If you got an alpha you want tested, let me know and I'll test it for you!